System Selection

This is the panel you see once you click on
Configuration-->Begin a Configuration. We call this the
"drill-down" method of finding a system unit, because you drill down
deeper into each product family until you find the exact model you
want.

Note these selection menus show only current
models. For withdrawn systems, you must choose the Withdrawn
Systems tab at the right end of the tabs across the
bottom. Or, you can type a full or partial number into
Quick Lookup.

Some families, and some individual models
within families, have their one-line description appear in
color. This is to help users quickly identify those models as
'special', in some way. The pink ones identify those as
TopSeller models. Other colors are used for other types,
like Education, Global, Web, Workhorse, etc. Note we still
don't see price or supply values, as we have not drilled down far
enough to see actual partnumbers. Scroll down to see what
appears If we actually select a family.

Here we selected the new ThinkCentre
M71e family. We see all the current models, complete with
their respective price & supply values but sometimes for newly
announced items there are as yet no supply supply values.
For two of them, we used Show Details to read the extended
description. In almost every case, the one-line product
description does not spell out all the technical details you need to
make an educated buying
decision.

These two models have similar but not
identical one-line descriptions. See how one model has the
Chassis Intrusion Switch, and the other does not ?